rakuen | Battle, last day of round -1!

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Battle, last day of round -1!

Suzaku Kururugi vs. Mei Chang
Weapons: Euphemia li Britannia and Gino Weinberg
Location: At the docks
Time of day: High Noon

Unfortunately Suzaku had agreed to this battle with Mei before he had fought Tsuki and lost Lelouch. That meant that since Kotarou was still recovering not that he would use the kid anyways after what happened last time and he had promised Lelouch not to use Nunnally in battle he had to use Euphemia's weapon. He didn't want to, he didn't want to hurt her; he didn't want to hurt anyone. But no one had been rendered unconscious in the last battle, so he was hoping that that was something rare. As long as they were careful.

Suzaku looked at Euphemia, "Are you sure this is alright, we can still forfeit if it's not..."

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Suzaku did not want to use this gun. He felt sick even touching it; not to mention there was no way he was going to shoot Mei. He turned around until he was a safe distance away from where they were going to fight and lay the gun on the grass where it couldn't get damaged. He had promised Mei a fight, and they had to have the weapons out but he would fight unarmed. He was pretty sure that wasn't against the rules.

"Ready?" He asked slipping into a ready stance.

This worked out just fine. The weapon Mei had pulled from Gino would have been ridiculous for her to try and use, which is why she has left it in his hands instead. She had planned to go hand-to-hand just the same and knowing that they were both trained in some combat, though not how much, was going to make this in interesting fight.

The tiny girl fell into her own stance the moment she saw Suzaku do so.

"Ready!"

Suzaku nodded, he was ready. He noticed that Mei wasn't useing a weapon either but glancing to Gino who was stood at the side a Britannia Halberd in his hands the mystery was solved. So unarmed fight it was, Suzaku nodded.

He knew the little girl was a decent fighter, their training with swords had taught him that even if she hadn't been used to sword fighting. She was ready and Suzaku moved forwards throwing a punch downwards at her.

So it would be a fair fight, as far as Mei knew! Someone had forgotten to mention the weapon upgrades that came with a certain halberd, so...

Whoops.

Mei weaved to one side of the punch, moving to latch onto the arm he had thrown the attach with before he could reel it back. A foot is in place to essentially trip the knight should she manage to make the grab. Her intention? To throw him. Normally she would be using his momentum against him to do this, but...

Apparently the halberd added strength, even with it being held off to the sideline. Without realizing it, Mei wouldn't even need the momentum. Nor would she be able to control the force behind the throw. Uh. Surprise?

It was quite fair to say that Suzaku was surprised when he found himself flying through the air after being thrown by a ten-year-old girl who barely reached his waist. He had trained with her; she had not been that strong then...

He rolled on landing and managed to get to his feet relatively easily just very shaken. He faced Mei again and resumed a ready stance, he had learnt his lesson, he would not make the mistake again. He waited for her to come to him.

Mei was as surprised as he was. "Ah!"

She stared, then looked down at her own hands. Wait. Was Suzaku just really, really light or...? The tiny girl threw a suspicious look to the sidelines. Weeeell. It could be an upgrade, but it wasn't like she could put the weapon away. Mei focused back on the battle.

Not about to keep him waiting, she dashed towards him and leapt, aiming a flying kick at chest level.

Suzaku was glad that Mei looked as utterly confused as he felt. He also glanced at Gino, was it an upgrade? Waiting ready in a crouched waiting stance he saw the girl run towards him and leap to kick at his chest he stepped out of the way, letting her jump past him and turned to face her again.

What he'll witness upon turning is the last thing that could have been imagined. Mei never landed. Once she went past Suzaku, she kept... going. In a straight line out towards the water, ignoring the law of gravity in general.

"AAAAAH!" The girl flailed at this. "WHAAAT!" Oh geez, she was running out of dock. Uh, uh. Um. There! Mei grabbed onto the last lamp post of the lights that rose up alongside the docks, stopping her uncontrolled flight out into the harbor. Sorry, Suzaku. The fight was on hold while she clung to the lamp and tried to figure out how to stop this crazy thing.

"Ah, Mei!" Gino perked up as she zoomed off towards the end of the jetty, pulling his left hand out of his blazer pocket to reveal two rings, "I forgot! You can fly now, okay?"

She could what?! Fly? Suzaku watched as she clung to the lamp. This made very little sense, but so far nothing in this world, and yes he had finally admitted this was a different world, made any sense whatsoever.

He just waited still, in a ready stance; watching as Mei tried to make herself steady. How was he supposed to fight a flying person? A flying person who seemed to be ridiculously strong...

Mei stared at the tallest knight from her spot clinging to the lamp. He... forgot. She took a deeeep breath, counted to ten, and...

YELLED AT HIM ANYWAY.

"What do you mean you forgot?!" HUFF. The biggest of huffs. The biggest ever. She let go of the lamp post and, perhaps by sheer force of determination alone, figured out flying really damn fast. The tiny girl zoomed over to Gino. Her choice of braking? Feet, meet Gino's head, from the side. BOOT.

"How does something like this even get forgotten?! Flying, Gino! It's flying!"

Scolding mode has been engaged.

Now just wait a second, wasn't she supposed to be fighting Suzaku here? Er, she'll get back to that. He can enjoy the show until then.

Gino's fall was rather like a tree being felled. If that tree was laughing like a maniac, anyway. He certainly wasn't in any state to block or catch her.

"I said I was sorry," he pointed out, between scoldings. "Anyway, it looks like-- ah, watch it." She'd started floating away again. He reached up and snagged one of her ankles to keep her tethered - and also conveniently away from his face, which he rather liked un-booted. "-- well, I was gonna say it looked like you've got the hang of it, but..."

He rolled his head to the side, and waved to the Knight of Seven with his free hand. "Hey, time out?"

Mei folded her arms and floated up... until Gino caught an ankle to keep her from getting farther away. She glared a bit longer, but come on, she was flying. The awesome of that was catching up. She looked around, then down at the knight, then over at the other knight, then around again.

"...ah... I can fly!"

Way to notice that, Mei. Good job.

She was about ready to shake her ankle free and zoom off, but then Gino had to go and say something to make her wary of it all over again. "What." The general 'rawr rawr rage' had faded. "I so have the hang of this! I figured it out in like ten seconds!" Yes. Ten seconds exactly.

"Well then," Gino sat up, transferring her ankle to his other hand so he could pick the halberd up again before standing. "Guess you should go show him what the Chang family can do, huh?"

As soon as he'd gotten to his feet - and Mei was several metres higher than she had been before - he tugged. Grabbed the back of her blazer collar. Hefted.

"Heads up, Seven!"

New technique learned: Mei Missile. Meissile.

Mei's antics even brought a smile to Suzaku's face, the worry of the battle and of Euphemia's weapon forgotten for a brief moment. He laughed quietly as he watched Mei trying to work out flying and Gino trying to protect himself from the tiny angry girl.

Soon though she seemed ready and Suzaku had to duck once again as Gino threw Mei towards him. Trying to suppress the laughter he turned and waited for his opponent to fly back towards him.

The fact that people weren’t supposed to be able to fly… well that was sort of put to the side as Suzaku readied himself to continue the battle.

Throwing Mei at someone would be more effective if she had been WARNED about it. While she did figure out his plan at the last second, it was still disconcerting to be chucked at one's opponent. Suzaku ducked and she flew past overhead, but by now she really had figured out this flying stuff. It didn't matter that people weren't supposed to fly. Someone her age had no problem suspending their disbelief to such epic levels and that made it just so much easier.

She swung herself back upright in the air and dug her heels in... uh, well, into the air, much like someone would dig their heels into the dirt or what have you to stop. This was how she decided flying people used braking. It worked. Mei spun back around and instead of charging Suzaku head on, she zoomed around him again, coming in low behind to grab at the coattails of his uniform, and then continue flying around him.

Suzaku had, for obvious reasons, never fought a flying opponent before. Or rather he had, he had fought plenty of aerial battles, but in nightmares and never when his opponents could fly and he couldn't.

He tried to side step out of the way, and managed to avoid Mei, but she still managed to grab his coat tails, he tried to turn but as she flew around him he found himself off balance and then on the floor.

He frowned; he had to think; think of a way to fight a flying person unarmed without hurting them. He could jump... could he kick that high.

He could try, running after her he jumped as high as he could, spinning round in an attempt to kick her out of the air.

Just think of her like a tiny, adorable knightmare frame, Suzaku. That ought to do the trick.

Okay! Mei had him knocked down. All that was left was to pin him and, who knows, twist his arm until he cried uncle or something. She didn't exactly have plans on beating him into unconsciousness, that was for sure. The girl pulled another hard turn in the air to reverse directions again and...

Got a spinkick to the gut. OOF. See Mei get kicked out of the air. See Mei hit the ground. See Mei bounce. It was just like kicking a soccer ball! The girl caught herself before she could hit the ground again, floating up.

Urrgh that huuurt, but this wasn't the time to whine about that. She didn't hang around floating, she immediately threw herself into a high speed charge. If the timing worked out, the tiny girl would be tackling Suzaku just after he's landed from his kick.

The kick connected and Mei span off, Suzaku instantly felt dreadful. He hadn't wanted to hurt her! He blinked watching as she flew back into the air, hoping that she was all right.

He didn't even manage to get out the way as she tackled into him; he landed awkwardly but was more relieved that he had not seriously hurt Mei than worried that he had once again been knocked to the floor.

Mei's alright! She is one tough little kid and, unlike him, she wasn't getting distracted by the worry of him getting hurt. He was a knight. HE CAN TAKE IT. So there.

With Suzaku now down, Mei wasted no time putting that strength boost from Tristan to use. She hopped off of his chest and, any second now, he was going to find himself being flipped over. After that? The plan was to grab an arm and twist it around to his back, to immobilize him.

It's a pretty basic hold, but effective; she could easily break an arm with it, but she doesn't go that far! Even so, all that extra strength is still something she's getting used to. She might end up twisting that arm a little too hard.

He had forgotten about the strange strength, the flying had made him forget that she had also got scarily strong. But then he was facing the ground and his arm was hurting.

His arm was hurting a lot, it was burning but he gritted his teeth, Mei had strength but she was still only ten, and very light. So closing his eyes he rolled over towards the arm that was pinned and tried to sit up.

It hurt, but it might get her off him.

Ha! Now she had-- okay, nope. Suzaku's right. She doesn't have the weight to keep someone pinned. "Wah!" The knight flips, momentarily onto her before he sits up. It gets her to let go of his arm and he gets a few seconds of respite while she gets over being squished.

And then he gets a child on his back. Look out, the tiny princess is aiming to put Suzaku in a headlock. If that could be called a headlock. Maybe it's better off classified as a headcling...

It worked, Suzaku got up and the pain in his arm started to subside. Then Mei flung herself onto his neck and he was trapped again.

He reached up and grabbed her arms, her grip was strong and so Suzaku wasn't too sure if trying to prise her off while spinning sharply to the side was going to work.

But it was either that or fall backwards to trap her, and he couldn't do that, because he wasn't going to hurt her.

Mei clung onto his neck throughout the spin. Once that was past, though, she switched her vice grip to the fabric of his uniform, around the collar of it. It wasn't so much moving her arms, which he did have a grip on, as switching what her hands were clamped onto.

See, she couldn't leave them around his neck, because then she might strangle him when she zoomed up into the air.

This was ridiculous; he thought he was a better fighter than this. But he had never fought someone who was flying before. As it was, when he found himself being lifted into the air by his coat he really couldn't do anything but laugh and kick his legs trying to wriggle out of her grasp.

It was ridiculous and though his laugh was brittle and bitter sounding it was genuine. He tried attacking her hands again, putting his hands behind him and trying to prise her fingers off him. Hoping that she would let go of his uniform.

Suzaku Kururugi vs. Mei Chang

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